Question

Farmer brown grows corn for a living. one day, farmer green suggests to farmer brown that he should clone his best corn plant in order to produce more ears of corn per plant. farmer brown is not sure about farmer green's idea. why might farmer brown be hesitant to clone his corn?

a.cloning the corn plants is difficult and expensive to accomplish.
b.the cloned corn would not have the same taste as the original plants.
c.cloning eliminates the ability to sexually reproduce and provide genetic variability.
d.cloned plants would have increased genetic variability as well as a shortened life expectancy.

Answer 1

Answer is C
Cloning eliminates the ability to sexually reproduce and provide genetic variability.

Answer 2

One issue with cloned plants is that they are all the same. Yes, they may all yield the same delicious corn- but if one thing goes wrong, that would be detrimental.

What if that one clone population of corn was weak against one type of mold, for example? If that mold was able to infect just one- it'll eventually spread like wildfire to all the other clone plants & wipe out an entire crop.

That would be a huge waste of money, time, resources &, most saddening of all: no corn...

So, the answer choice should be C.

Hope that helps!